The ransomware that took half the wolrd by storm and surprise, crippled critical infrastucture around the world and still raging ahead : WannaCry. By now there are a lot of information available for it, a lot of things have been said about it, and a staggering amount of people have analyzed it. My endevours in this post will be to aggregate them, analyze some of them. Specificllay point out some of the things you, as a infected user can do to prevent further spread,and if you are already infected, a way to recover your files. Prevention Download English language security updates: Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 , Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86, Windows XP SP2 x64 , Windows XP SP3 x86 , Windows XP Embedded SP3 x86 , Windows 8 x86, Windows 8 x64 Recovery Information If you are already infected with the ransomware, then your best bet is to try these tools. These are proven to work in Windows Xp - 7. You have to be running a x86 version of windows for these to work. They try to extract the pri...
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